[Magdalen] And so it begins...

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

An outlet for global non-specific anger.  They are all mad as heck -- just
because.

The Halloween vandals and hooligans will grow up to be members of one of
those outrage-spawned militias.

Reminds me of Mark Twain's recommendation for dealing with a teenage boy.

http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3sh792

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> On 11/27/15 10:23 AM, Roger Stokes wrote:
>
>>
>> The other American import we lamented was trick or treat which is not so
>> well organized as a fun children's activity over here as I believe it is
>> in the US.  Teens and adolescents see it as an excuse for causing mayhem
>> and general disturbance to others, as well as low-level damage in some
>> cases.
>>
>
> I had thought that Guy Fawkes' Day included an analogy to Trick or Treat?
> ("A penny for the Guy"?).  But of course I've never lived or even visited
> there.
>
> However, your sentence beginning, "Teens and adolescents..." is quite
> standard here.  When my mother was a small child, turning over outhouses
> (privys) was a standard thing, and men were occupied on the morning after
> putting them back up.  At one point, a gang of boys (including at least one
> or two of her brothers) were intending to push over their own family
> outhouse, at the same time that her father, unbeknownst to the boys, was
> using it.  He gave a yell when he felt it begin to rock (he was a large and
> tough miner), and they ran like hell.  Soaped windows were also standard,
> frequently with obscenities, even when I was young (again, almost
> exclusively boys), unrolling toilet paper all over yards (called "tp-ing"),
> very difficult to clean up in wet weather, and other minor damage.  Spray
> cans of paint are much worse than soap.  The rationale behind this was a
> revenge for "no treat", but it was very thin, and seldom had much
> connection.
>
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>